Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cigar-clouds rolling o'er his head...
Officer Chiardi of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children was a complainant in the Harlem Police Court recently against a little Italian boy named Giacinto Conzoni, whom he charged with picking cigar stumps and old tobacco quids from the streets. When the boy was asked by the magistrate what he did with the stuff, he said that he sold it to a man who made cigarettes and plug chewing tobacco of it. The boy was committed to the Catholic Protectory...
...found that the report concerning the case of small-pox in college was all a humbug, we asked the officer on duty at the station in what respects the Harvard student of today differed from the student of years ago. "Well," he said, taking a puff at his cigar, "the students are a different lot altogether from what they used to be. There used to be a lot of those hot-blooded Southern fellows in college - fellows that had all the money they wanted, and who dared to do anything. They used to do things that were ingenious - things that...
...that it would soon be over. After drinking a glass of ale he appeared strengthened, and, as the fatal moment was approaching, he devoted the remaining portion of his time to distributing among his friends those little articles which he would no longer want. To one he gave his cigar-case, to another his pipes and tobacco-pouch, and he charged his brother with his latch-key, with instructions to deliver it, after all was over, to his landlady...
...takes a cigar, and puffs away in silence till MINNIE finishes...